"You didn't search her?" Chen Xuan asked, a little surprised.
"Of course I did." Honglian frowned. "Hey, don't do anything rash."
Both of them remained calm. Chen Xuan had already scanned the man and woman, and they were ordinary people with no abilities.
"What's going on?" The others gathered around the stove had heard the commotion.
Despair flashed across the woman's face.
She clearly believed that if more enemies noticed her, her already slim chances of escape would vanish.
Chen Xuan sighed and said softly, "Freeze."
If the misunderstanding went any further and she actually pulled the trigger, things would be hard to smooth over.
The woman stiffened in place. She could not even bend her finger.
Only then did Chen Xuan step forward, pry open her hand, and take the gun. But a cable ran from the grip straight beneath the skin of her wrist.
He pinched the cable in one hand and held the gun in the other. A slight tug snapped it.
Inside, it appeared to be a bundle of tiny wires. Chen Xuan traced the cable back to her arm and found that the inner side was hollow, with just enough room for the folded gun.
But if it was a cybernetic body, the workmanship was oddly crude.
By then, everyone had gathered around.
"Oh, she's awake." Xiao Jiu looked her over happily. "Does your wound still hurt?"
"What are you two doing?" Wang Baihu asked between slurps of noodles.
The woman looked surprised too.
Though she could not turn her head, her eyes swept back and forth over Xiao Jiu and the others. Muffled sounds came from her throat.
Chen Xuan flicked a finger upward, ending the True Word Technique.
The moment she could move again, she lunged forward with too much force and fell